Fanatics Quotes

The fanatic is dangerous.

— Reinhold Niebuhr

The egotist is next door to a fanatic.

— Samuel Smiles

Fanatics," Halt said. "Don't you just love 'em?

— John Flanagan

The worst vice of the fanatic is his sincerity.

— Oscar Wilde

“Stagnation kills consciousness.”

— Abhijit Naskar

“I take impatience and fanatics to new levels.”

— Caitlin Perry

Ive always been a health fanatic.

— Raquel Welch

there is no fanatic like a religious fanatic.

— Agatha Christie

Ideology and religion are contraindicated for fanatics.

— Ilkin Santak

It wasn't only fanatics and drunkards who began conversations with strangers in public.

— Alain de Botton

“Of all the things I had learned in my life, nothing was so simple as fanatics imagined.”

— Carol Berg

Religious conflict can be the bloodiest and cruelest conflicts that turn people into fanatics.

— Anonymous

An infallible method of making fanatics is to persuade before you instruct.

— Voltaire

Recluse fanatics have few ideas or sentiments to communicate . . .

— Edward Gibbon

“Evolution of apes to human begins with one person disposing of their flag in a museum.”

— Abhijit Naskar

I'm not a truthiness fanatic, I'm truthiness's father.

— Stephen Colbert

Listening to someone who brews their own beer is like listening to a religious fanatic talk about the day he saw the…

— Ross Murray

I knew the Beatles songs and how influential they are to other bands, but I'm not a fanatic, so I could look…

— Aaron Taylor-Johnson

What will the preachers say? .. to teach men not to persecute men: for, while a few sanctimonious humbugs are burning a…

— Voltaire

There's no other place that exemplifies a fanatic as much as Chicago. I feel like sports fans have bred out of Chicago.

— Paul Scheer

Those who are determined to be 'offended' will discover a provocation somewhere. We cannot possibly adjust enough to please the fanatics, and…

— Christopher Hitchens

America is a very fundamentalist society. It's like Iran in the degree of fanatic religious commitment.

— Noam Chomsky

How do you compete against a true fanatic? You can only try to build the best possible moat and continuously attempt to…

— Charlie Munger

Without humor, a sports fan is a religious fanatic. Without humor, a newscast is a terrible, depressing, unpalatable thing.

— Keith Olbermann

If we believe that he [Jesus Christ]really countenanced the follies, the falsehoods, and the charlatanisms, which his biographers [writers of the New…

— Thomas Jefferson

Some 'separation' zealots would expunge any vestige of religious observance in public schools. Many of the same anti-religious fanatics would like to…

— Russell Kirk

Among the wise and high-minded people who in self-respecting and genuine fashion strive earnestly for peace, there are the foolish fanatics always…

— Theodore Roosevelt

I prize my own independence too much. And philosophically, I could never accept any rigid dogma or ideology, whether it's Christianity or…

— Saul Alinsky

In my native Boulder County, Colorado, the fracking fanatics are out in force. They are marching door-to-door, petitions and mythology in hand,…

— Bob Beauprez

I love books, I love art, I'm a fanatic nature and wildlife person. People assume I'm a political animal, power hungry, wanting…

— David Mixner

I was a criminal science fanatic and went to study it in college as well and I think that helped me [on…

— Pauley Perrette

It is an absurd law [Section 295A of the Indian penal code] but also extremely dangerous because it gives fanatics, whether they…

— Richard Dawkins

Gaza is such a tremendous humanitarian problem, it's way beyond Israel's capability to do anything significant about. It's a world problem, but…

— Moshe Arens

For me George Bush is just as scary, if not more. Because he doesn't look like a scary guy, because he's shaved…

— Marjane Satrapi

“Neither the fanatics nor the faint-hearted are needed. And our duty as a Party is not to our Party alone, but to…

— John F. Kennedy

There have been the most terrible, shocking events taking place in the United States of America within the last hour or so...…

— Tony Blair

What a blessing 'terrorism' is for the state! It's the ideal distraction from the day-to-day reality of the state's chief activity: wringing…

— Joseph Sobran

The lumbermen...regarded forest devastation as normal and second growth as a delusion of fools…And as for sustained yield, no such idea had…

— Gifford Pinchot

Are we not all of us fanatics? I say only what you of the U.S.A. pretend you do not know. Attachments are…

— David Foster Wallace

No civilisation can grow unless fanatics, bloodshed, and brutality stop. No civilisation can begin to lift up its head until we look…

— Swami Vivekananda